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'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit's collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit's CEO.

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[–] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people even participate after all this mess

[–] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because they're hopeful they can save the site through activism. What they forget is that they are not protesting a government, they are trying to stop a corporate entity from fulfilling it's legal obligations to make money for it's investors.

[–] kryllic@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago

I think using the site you're protesting against is peak slacktivism

[–] mrmanager 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do they want to save the site? The leadership deserves to see it die.

[–] Dominic8999@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's kinda cozy on lemm.ee, I like it

[–] Dominic8999@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Btw, do you guys also have JSON error when you try to upload some files for like a banner or something? Or is it just me?

[–] Riakuro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, I had the same issue too. It turned out to be the size of the banner, but I went through trial and error to get the right size because I couldn’t find any lemmy documentation for what the right size is.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What is the right size?

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

isnt the point of the whole skizm to kill it? (site and IPO)

[–] nbafantest@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's nothing wrong with Reddit trying to be profitable. It should be profitable.

Apollo and Reddit Is Fun even had large subscriber bases willing to pay up to support our usage.

Reddit leadership is just really shitty. That is just the reality. Even if they wanted to be profitable, Spez simply doesn't know how to get there.

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

there is a problem, in the same way your cat pees on your rug to mark territory, its instincts for marking are too strong and its higher reasoning is too weak to stop it. its when capitalism being an instinct, takes over higher brain functions is it a problem.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No, community-owned efforts like Lemmy and Debian exist precisely because neither corporations nor governments are fit to run them.

[–] Haha@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hey spez, screw you!